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TBa® ¥®5c® * PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people.” Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 5-649) U No Answer Call 5-7508 Rubie W. Shakespeare..-_Advertising and Business Manager Lynwood Parker...—... , .. . — Associate Editor, on Leave Charles Goolsby..—..—.—_............Associate Editor Roberta Molden_-.Associate Editor 1966 U Street, 2-1407 Mrs. foe C««n Circulation Manager Member ol the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Enterea as becona Class Matter, June 9, 1947 at the Post Otfice at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879. 1 year subscription_{2.00 Single copy--—Sc NATIONAL €DITOWAL_ kSSOCIATION M ■ EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily e reflection of the policy of The Voiae.—Pub. Teacher Sees Free India as Symbol Of Hope for Colored People (Dr. T, Thomas Fortune Fletcher made a tour of free India and Pakistan. He is one of the Americans teaching in Ethiopia to help this nation on its road to recov ery in the post-war world. This article is the first of a series of two.) ASMARA. Eritrea, Africa. (ANP). An eight day voyage aboard a small Italian steamer, M/S Taurina,' from Karachi, Pakistan has given me time to evaluate my impressions of my recent visit to The New India. The New India celebrated last month, Aug. 15, its first anni versary of its independence from Great Britain. This India is a brave new In dia, an India governed by In dians, an India where black and brown men walk upright and un afraid. On my voyage to India from British East Africa I had as fel low passengers on the M/S Dara a number of Indian merchants and their families returning to their homeland for the first time since its independence. For hours on hours they talked about the years of struggle before freedom became a reality, of the Saint Ghandiji, the architect and builder of that freedom who laid the final stone in the temple of freedom and sealed it with his martyr’s blood. They spoke of Pandit Nehru, Ghandiji’s spiritual heir and now undisputed leader of India. . . Madame Sarojini Naidu, poet and now governor of the United Pro vinces Madame Pandit, Nehru’s sister, ambassador to Moscow and leader of India’s delegation to Paris this month where the spec tacle of South Africa’s discrim inatory laws against all non whites will be exposed to the world. They talked sadly about the re ligious strife which caused the partition ofthe country into two states, India and Pakistan. I shall never forget those ex citing moments when first we sighted land. As we sailed into Bombay we saw the huge, ugly arch, “The Gateway to India,” erected in 1911 to commemorate the entrance of King George V and Queen Mary for their coro nation. Ugly as it is, today it has a new meaning; it is truly the gateway to India, an arch of triumph of freedom. When the pilot boat came alongside our liner a young pilot spotlessly dressed in a white uni form boarded. One excited In dian passenger could not restrain himself as he shouted, “The pilot is Indian!” A fellow countryman remarked tartly, “And why shouldn’t he be? Aren’t we in Indian waters?” My heart sang a poem of praise as I saw the spirit of the new In dia. On shore the customs, also manned by Indians, was efficient and courteous. (To be continued.) CE™storm m\\ ^INVESTIGAT^fl^^^^S^ ■ iujsco ;Mti ALL METAL, SELF-STORING f. |^KSu|| I COMBINATION SCREEN HI SI I AND STORM SASH I With Ruaco, the world s first patented [ J I I ■ ■II metal, self storing combination It^^E 'Jh/// H window. YOU’LL NEVER HA VS Jflill M m TO CHANGE A STORM SASH OR SCREEN AGAIN. wlwwiu \ . —Courtesy Lincoln Journal. .Carpenter Favors the Dixiecrats Out in Gering, Nebraska a few weeks ago, a former mayor of Scottsbluff, now Democratic can didate for the U. S. senate, ad dressed a group of young people. At that time he declared that war was inevitable and thereby he seemed to imply that he would support any program that might lead to war if elected, since, as far as he must be con cerned, no human effort can halt its advance. He would like for us to “be prepared for it” in a military way but opposes our best preparation—an integrated army. For many months now the Dept, of the Army has been con ducting a study of manpower usage and is just about ready for the new integration. Non segregatiqn of races is not new in the army, but it has not been done on any large scale. Terry Carpenter is the man (and how he ever got endorsed by his state committee is a won der). “Terrible Terry” he is known as and Terrible is a good description of the kind of rep resentative he’d make Nebras kans in the senate, for he has pledged opposition to the Civil Rights program. Civil Rights are the rights of all the people. In essence, it appears that Mr. Carpenter would maintain the police state aspects of southern government and even extend them to Nebraska. Police and legal protection are “rights” due every citizen in doing his duty to God and his country. Last week a man was shot in Georgia for voting. Many innocent persons have perished at the hands of lawless mobs. The Klan (which J. Parnell Thomas conveniently overlooked) has burned its crosses—a symbol of fear and in timidation. It seems that Ter rible Terry would perpetuate these. In addition, the high cost of living and aid to schools are "things important to every Ne braskan, but will he do what he can to bring down prices for the consumer? He says “only a few are out of line.” Less than four years have passed since we defeated the Germans—where, unlike the Ne gro who has been the object of race hate, crime and murder— the old Hitler government was a powerful force for spreading such obscenities. Hundreds of Nebraska’s sons fell defeating that force and to stop its spread and influence. Since V-E day, our State Department has found it necessary to maintain serveil lance of occupation forces there as much to prevent the resurrec tion of the Nazis as to hold back the tide of Russian influence. Yet Mr. Carpenter seems ready to make masses of unconverted Nazis our “ally.” He has said “The American people are not Sports Scope Powers Spins ‘Satcli’ Yarn BY AL MOSES. NEW YORK. (ANP). Many are the tales woven around the long body of Leroy Satchel Paige, pitcher of the Cleveland Indians of the American league. This one recanted by Jimmy Powers, N. Y., Daily News, on Sept. 9 brought much comfort to the more than 50 dwellers of Harlem who noted it and spoke to me about same. Wrote Mr. Powers: “Dizzy Dean tells a story about an exhibition game in which he pitched against Satchel Paige. “We went right down through the eighth inning scoreless,’ Diz relat ed, ‘then I led off with a triple in the ninth’.” Satch, Pulls a Waddel. Rube Waddell, eccentric pitch er for Connie Mack back in 1905, was the only pitcher we know anything about who performed what Diz relates from here on in: “After I reached third, Satch walked over to me with a big grin and said, ‘Nice hitting, Mr. Dean. But you know somethin’? You ain’t goin’ no further. You is going to be left right her^.’ And he meant it. He made his three outfielders sit down on the grass. Then he motioned his in fielders to squat down right in their regular positions. He looked over at me on third, winked, and proceeded to—STRIKE OUT THE NEXT THREE BATTERS.” Ezzard Charles NEW YORK. (ANP). Ezzard Charles, Cincinnati’s bet for the heavyweight championship, who met Jimmy Bivins in Washing ton Sept. 13, has signed to fight Joe Baksi, of Kulpmont, Pa., in a 15-round performance at Madison Square garden Nov. 12, it was learned here last week. The Gar den match is sponsored by the 20th Century Sporting club. Over in South Fallsburg, N. Y., Jersey Joe Walcott is busily readying himself for the Sept. 21 encounter with Gus Lesnevich, dethroned light heavy king. Wal cott began his serious training for the match last Wednesday. willing to do more than is con venient to save their rights. Rights may be God-given, but they can be lost.” How very true, especially with men like Terribly Terry in office. It is interesting to note that the socialists failed to raise the quota for an “official” conven tion. Last week, the Progressives also failed to register enough signatures to get on the Novem ber ballot. But the Dixiecrats, who haven’t tried to muster the 750-signature ante that other parties must plank dqjyn won’t have to go to all the time, trouble and expense of having a conven tion—Terrible Terry has already said in effect that he will vote their wray if elected. Since Colonels and Generals who want promotions must “shake hands” with the Senate, Carpenter would do his bit to see that they pursued undemocratic policies and perpetuated segregation in the armed forces. He will op pose the peoples rights program and he has not pledged himself to help reduce the high cost of living. Terrible Terry is en titled to any view he likes, under the Constitution, but Nebraskans also have the right to keep him from controlling their destinies by defeating him at the polls.— C. M. G. Annual Dinner Party Held / At Woods’ Dining Hall *■ Mrs. Elizabeth Woods feted her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Woods of Muskegon, Mich., Saturday, September 4, at the Woods Dining Hall at the Nebraska state fair grounds. Covers were laid-for 24 guests who were received by Mrs. R. C. Holcomb and Mrs. Maurice Cope land. Mrs. R. S. Huston presented and arranged the lovely flowers. % Out-of-town guests attending were, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wendell Thomas and their daughter, Shir ley of Omaha, Mrs. Thelma Ruth erford of Washington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs. Delmar J. Woods of Omaha, Mr. Roy Miller of New Haven, Mich., Miss Betty Patrick of Kansas City. Other guests were Sirs and Madames R. t. Holcomb and daughter, Beverly, R. G. Huston and daughter, Bet tie Rose, Wyatt Williams, Walter Young, Stanley Cooke, Rev. and Mrs. Trago McWilliams, sr., and Rev. and Mrs. T. T. McWilliams, jr., and son, Richard. Mr. and Mrs. George Randol, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bowen, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Young and Mrs. Maude Johnson. Mrs. Kathryn Conway of Chey enne, Wyo., who was also an in vited guest, did not arrive until Tuesday, she remained through the fair week and returned home Sunday night. Du Bois to Be Out Of NAACP Office NEW YORK. (ANP). Dr. W- E. B. DuBois, militant Negro leader and director of the NAACP’s spe cial research branch, will be ropped from the association’s em ployment rolls when his contract * expires on Dec. 31, according to an announcement made here last week by the group’s board of di rectors. The action was taken be cause Dr. DuBois criticized the association’s executive secretary, Walter White, for accepting a post as consultant to the U. S. U.N. delegation. The board’s viewpoint was that Dr. DuBois had been “unco-oper ative” with the executive staff of which he is a member, by say ing that in his opinion White’s position “is political and not in the best interest of the Negro peoples, of the world.” ^ Dr. DuBois, who celebrated his 80th birthday last February, had been asked by Mr. White to help in preparing an agenda for the U.N. meeting which is to be held in Paris. He refused, saying he could do nothing to help his fel low associate because he had been working for some time on inter national affairs for the association and had presented many memo rando to the board about his findings. He added that he did not know whether the board ever saw this material. The executive group also racked up against its research director a charge of violating confidences of the association by giving a 0 memo to the press on the dispute before it had enough time to study his charges. The executives concluded on this basis that “it will not be in the best interests of the associa tion to continue Dr. DuBois as a staff member beyond the term of his present contract.” They di rected that a formal notice be transmitted to Dr. DuBois. Speaking of the latest incident, Arthur B. Spingarn, president, said, “It is with deep regret that the board felt the necessity of passing this motion asking for the DuBois discharge from the asso ciation staff. . “Dr. DuBois was one of the founders of the association, and for many years his voice was the voice of this organization; but the board could not retain him and hold its own position as the top authority in the association.”